Introduction to QShell, Part 2

QShell offers many utilities that can make your life easier. It's a powerful environment! Unfortunately, to many programmers in the IBM i community, it's also an alien environment. I decided to write this series of articles to help IBM i programmers become familiar with the QShell environment.
Part 1 of this series explains what QShell is and gives an introduction to the shell environment. Today's article shows you some advanced features of the command-line environment. Just ...

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Though it is really interesting to read what QShell is and how to execute and combine commands, I'm still wondering why I should learn to use it. Could you give some examples of situations that can only (or far more easy) be solved with QShell - compared to the use of CL and ILE-RPG and SQL and other well known tools?
Klaas Ploegman

@Klaas: I have published many, many articles over the years demonstrating a particular technique in QShell, and showing how easy it is to do various things. The problem seems to be that people don't understand the environment, so they don't use the technique. the feedback I've received from people was along the lines of "I really need to learn QShell from the start, otherwise, I'm afraid to use your technique." That was the point of this series.

I guess it's a chicken-and-egg problem. You need to know QShell to see it's value, and you need to see it's value to use QShell.